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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?
(a) One's faith.
(b) One's experience.
(c) One's fears.
(d) One's intelligence.

2. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The existence of self-consciousness.
(b) The content of the self.
(c) The existence of the self outside the mind.
(d) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.

3. What did Kant believe must be true for an action to be good?
(a) It must be helpful to somebody else.
(b) It must be contrary to one's inclinations.
(c) It must be consistent with one's inclinations.
(d) It must not contradict one's own values.

4. Which of the following is true about subjectivity?
(a) Something that is subjective can never be objective.
(b) Beauty can never be subjective.
(c) Subjectivity is only applied to properties.
(d) Subjectivity is not total when it comes to beauty.

5. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How the self can be conscious.
(b) How existence is possible.
(c) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(d) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?

2. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?

3. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?

4. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

5. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?

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